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GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

328: The US Worlds Team & CEO Dumpster Fire

GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

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4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2018

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

IN THE NEWS

  • BREAKING TUESDAY UPDATE: Mary Bono has resigned. We perform a dramatic reading of her resignation letter. Now, to the show.
  • USAG appoints Mary Bono as its interim CEO, and Jessica and Spencer have no opinions about that. Oh wait, the opposite. 
    • The Nike tweet and why that (and her fake apology) is so, so bad
    • She worked for the damn USAG law firm
    • Meanwhile, Simone is being a CHAMPION
    • Has USAG learned NOTHING? (Spoiler: yes)
    • On what planet was a politician the right person right now?

ACTUAL GYMNASTICS

  • The US women's worlds team has been named! And it makes sense!
    • SIMONE DEBUTED A NEW VAULT YOU GUYS
      • But seriously. This vault.
      • I mean...come on.
      • Just...
    • Streaming the selection competition — good for everyone!
    • Kara Eaker's beam score - how realistic is this?
    • BUT WHO IS THE ALTERNATE? WHAT SHOULD THE TEAM FINAL LINEUPS BE? WHO DOES BEAM IN QUALIFICATION? We discuss.
  • A taste of next week's worlds preview as we discuss medal prospects for the US women's team

GYMTERNET NEWS

  • Tom Forster did a Twitter Q&A that exceeded expectations and provided some actual information!
    • What is the Ted Stevens Act, how is it influencing US Olympic qualification decisions, and does that even make sense? 
  • USAG released the Jade Carey Rules about individual Olympic qualification. We break them down, with comments.

MEET ROUNDUP

  • Youth Olympic Games — Italy has an all-around champion, Simone Biles wins meets she doesn't even enter now, and we dork out about the future for Ireland and Finland
  • Romanian nationals — Denisa Golgota withdrew, sending the gymnastics world into a state of panic, but things look good for the 2020 seniors

FURTHER READING

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Remember the show is PG-13 so you might hear a naughty word or two.

0:04.0

My withdrawal comes in the wake of personal attacks that left undefended would have made my

0:09.0

leading USAG a liability for the organization because it's about her the personal attacks Jessica.

0:16.0

They were personal which is translation for like you actually had to face criticism that

0:20.9

U.S.C. resignation letter translation personal attacks. criticism that you put out there in public.

0:23.0

The letter, translation, personal attacks means, oh, you actually had to be held accountable

0:27.4

for a take that you had that other people didn't like.

0:31.2

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0:39.4

gymnastic at checkout. Today Simone proves once again that she is a champion in every way by standing up for the people.

0:49.0

USA gymnastics forgot about social media vetting in job interviews because their new CEO

0:56.2

hates Nike and Kappernik and everything they stand for and she had no problems

1:00.3

telling people that. We have a U.S. Women's World Team. Italy has a Youth Olympic

1:07.2

all-around champion. Simone stuck her new vault. The Earth shook. She got a

1:12.2

16 of Romania Nationals and Tom Forster did a Q&A on

1:16.4

Twitter that wasn't horrible. We're going to talk all about this stuff, you guys. This is episode

1:21.8

of 328 for October 17th 2018 and welcome to the

1:26.5

number one gymnastics podcast in the galaxy I'm Jessica and I'm here with

1:31.0

Spencer from the balance beam situation and the most important thing happening right now is the commissions are open again.

1:38.0

Commissions are open. So we only do so many of these a year. They're on the website,castic under the Support Us tab, you become a club

1:45.4

gym nerd member, you get special goodies, and for being a member, and also these fill up

1:50.4

fast, so if you want to get these as a gift for someone you can and if

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